Multiple picture and method of producing the same.



No. 886,606. PATBNTED'MAY 5, 1.908.

G.. HOLMSTEN.

MULTIPLE PICTURE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

-APPLIGATION IILIBD O0T .30, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAF HOLMSTEN, OF NORRKGPING, SWEDEN.

MULTIPLE PICTURE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAF HoLMsTEN, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at S6dra Promenaden 15, Norrkoping, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiple Pictures and Method of Producing the Same; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to multiple pictures and to methods of producing the same and the object of the invention is to produce a plurality of pictures'on a continu ous surface in such a manner that when the surface is viewed from one direction one picture becomes visible while another picture is visible when the surface is viewed from an other direction.

The accompanying drawing shows a section through a multiple picture according to the present invention.

The method of producing the multiple picture is as follows: A plurality of pictures, produced by photography, painting or the like, are divided into a suitable number of equal strips by means of parallel cuts. In case only two pictures are to be embodied in the multiple picture, only two pictures are cut into strips and the first strip of the first picture is then secured on a plane plate or base by being glued thereto or attached in other suitable manner. Thereupon the first strip of the second picture is mounted on the base adjacent to the first strip of the first picture. The second strip of the first picture is then secured on the base adjacent to the first strip of the second picture, and the sec- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 30, 1906.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Serial No. 341,269.

0nd strip of the second picture is placed adjacent to the second strip of the first picture and so on in succession until 'all the strips of the two pictures have been mounted on the base, the strips of one picture alternating with the strips of the other picture. The multiple picture thus produced on the base is then reproduced by photography or in other suitable manner and the reproductions are corrugated or bent in such a manner that the edges of the corrugations, as far as possible, coincide with the division-lines between adjacent picture strips, a continuous picture surface thus being formed, in which the picture strips a of one picture extend parallel to each other and at an angle to the picture strips 1) of the other picture which also extend parallel to each other. The picture formed by the reproduced strips (1- is visible from one direction, while the picture formed by the reproduced strips b is visible from the opposite direction.

Having thus described. my invention, what I claim as new is:

The method of producing multiple pictures which consists in dividing a plurality of pictures into a number of strips, then mounting the strips on a plane base with the strips of one picture alternating with the strips of another picture, then reproducing the multiple picture thus formed, and finally bending the reproduction on the division lines between adjacent strips to cause the strips belonging to one picture to extend at an angle to the strips forming another picture.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, and have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAF HOLMSTEN. 

